Another fascinating book from the Lyons' den. The artwork is nice and the black-and-white pages are almost like looking at original art. Useful for studying pen technique. The book itself seems to consist of a few Scout-themed pictures padded out with material from other books (e.g. the Paul and His Horse series). Adding to this impression is the fact that when one opens the book with its 100%-Boy cover image the first thing he sees is a little girl in a dress drawing in a sketchbook.
The foreword refers to "the pupil" as if this were a textbook. The color list reminds me of the kids' watercolor sets I used to ogle at the import store: big colorful hinged metal boxes with dozens of little cakes of color and a couple of cheap brushes. The quality of the paints was poor but the sets certainly fired the artistic imagination.
I've never heard of "Burnt Luime." Surely it's a typo. Burnt Umber, maybe? Hard to get from "umber" to "luime." Google only turned up "burnt lime," which is a caustic chemical used in industry.
By SuperScrounge
Luime by itself refers to nakedness or bareness, so maybe it referred to a color that was basically a darker flesh color?
Gamboge and Crimson Lake were ones I had never heard of, but a search turned up those easily.
By comickraut
Thanks for this book. :-)
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